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"I do not admire the excess of a virtue like courage unless I see at the same time an excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who possessed extreme courage and extreme kindness. We show greatness not by being at one extreme, but by touching both at once and occupying all the space in between."
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"Might could would-they are contemptible auxiliaries."
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"Let thy true religion be to act right."
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"Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful."
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"It's easy to be a saint when all you've known is the good."
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"I've never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are the same.' 'But the Magdalen?' 'Ah, drop that! Christ would never have said those words if He had known how they would be abused. Of all the Gospel those words are the only ones remembered."
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"When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't be surprised by a rising generation who then behaves disrespectfully, treating life, people, and choices as if they possess little value or worth. For whether or not that was the intention, society has taught them to believe thusly."
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"Emma Garcia gripped the steering wheel of the stolen pick-up truck she wished she wasn't driving. In the entirety of her twenty-six years, she hadn't taken as much as a piece of gum without paying for it, until today."
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"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized."
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"The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate."
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"Right is right, no matter how wrong the time is."
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"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion."
Wisdom
"Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?"
Nature
"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them."
Faith
"The only shame is to have none."
Wisdom
"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
Truth
"We never love a person, but only qualities."
Love
"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world."
Nature
"If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy."
Philosophy
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."
Wisdom
"What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe."
Philosophy
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